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Abbas Ali Baig

Abbas Ali Baig

Born: 19 March 1939, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Major Teams: Hyderabad, Oxford University, Somerset, India.
Known As: Abbas Ali Baig
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Leg Break


Test Debut: India v England at Manchester, 4th Test, 1959
Last Test:
India v West Indies at Calcutta, 2nd Test, 1966/67

First Class Debut:
Hyderabad (India) v Andhra at Hyderabad, 1954/55
Last First Class Match:
Hyderabad (India) v Bombay at Bombay (Wankhede Stadium), 1975/76

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   10   18   0   428  112   23.77   1   2    6   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling               3      0    15    0    -     -      0   0    -   5.00

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1954/55 - 1975/76)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100s   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  235  391  29 12367  224*  34.16   21  154   0

                       R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10
Bowling              432    9  48.00  2-26    0   0

LIST A LIMITED OVERS

                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    0    -   -     -    -     -     -   -    -   -

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling                 0    -     -    -    -     -      -   -    -    -

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Profile:

A classy right handed strokeplayer, Abbas Ali Baig remains one of the tragic figures of Indian cricket. For a man of his talent and skill, only ten Tests over a first class career that stretched over two decades was scant reward. But Baig's brush with immortality is in the record books for his memorable feat in scoring a century in his first Test. Coming in a replacement for the injured Vijay Manjrekar, Baig hit a superb 112 at Old Trafford. Not only was he the first to accomplish the feat outside India, but at 20 years, 131 days he was then the youngest Indian to get a Test hundred. He performed creditably against the strong Australian side in 1959-60, notching up 50 and 58 in the third Test at Bombay, to play a notable role in India drawing the game. Against Pakistan the following season he failed in four innings and was dropped. Despite scoring heavily in the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy tournaments, he was not brought back until six years later, when he played two Tests against West Indies. He was only moderately successful but he was dropped and never again played Test cricket. However he remained elegance personified and fought his way back into the Indian team that toured England in 1971 as opening batsman after being distinctly unlucky to miss the trip to West Indies earlier that year. But he was overlooked for the Tests, though Ashok Mankad had a wretched series and that remained the extent of his international career.

Along with other stars like Jaisimha, Pataudi, Abid Ali, Jayantilal, Krishnamurthy, Govindraj and Asif Iqbal Razvi (before he migrated to Pakistan), Baig formed the nucleus of a strong and attractive, if inconsistent Hyderabad side from the late fifties to the early seventies. In a long first class career, Baig scored 12,367 runs (34.16) with 21 centuries with a highest score of 224 not out for South Zone against North Zone in 1966-67. He earned a Blue at Oxford. (Partab Ramchand)


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